Risk factors of developing long-lasting breast pain after breast cancer radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-78

  Lundstedt, Dan ^a,b   Gustafsson, Magnus ^a,b   Steineck, Gunnar ^a,c   Malmström, Per ^d   Alsadius, David ^a,b   Sundberg, Agnetha ^b   Wilderäng, Ulrica ^a   Holmberg, Erik ^b   Johansson, Karl Axel ^b   Karlsson, Per ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast pain; Long lasting; Radiotherapy; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVING SURGERY; BREAST PAIN; LONG LASTING; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTI VARIABLES; PHOTON ENERGY; POSTOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; POTENTIAL RISKS; RISK FACTORS;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY; SURVEYS;

HEALTH;

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTALGIA; OBESITY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MASTODYNIA; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SWEDEN;

EID: 84859814616     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.05.065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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